“We’re very much a sexist society,” actress Jennifer Aniston said in a recent interview with the New York Times, addressing not just the constant questions she faces about marriage and children, but about recent revelations of pay discrimination in Hollywood.
“Women are still not paid as much as men,” Aniston continued. “I’ve been up against that in negotiations myself.”
Aniston was referring an interesting and damning tidbit concerning a business negotiation, leaked by the Sony hackers in December: the news that actress Jennifer Lawrence earned less back-end compensation than her male co-stars—Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, and Jeremy Renner—for their work in the 2013 film “American Hustle.”
The lack of wage parity was documented in a December 5, 2013 email from Columbia Pictures executive Andrew Gumpert to Amy Pascal, the co-chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Columbia, a subsidiary of Sony, co-financed “American Hustle” with Annapurna Pictures.
